Seyslertütsch
Cantons: FR · Freiburg
The three branches
Branch: High Alemannic
The Mittelland and the east: Zurich, Bern, Aargau, Solothurn, St. Gallen. The largest group — and the one people mean when they say “Swiss German”.
The line that draws it
- In this branch
- schneie
- Next door
- schniie
- Standard German
- schneien
What it sounds like
Nothing checked in the register for this dialect yet. Better nothing than a link nobody has listened to.
Every listening sourceHow to recognise them
Forms Heidi's own check actually tells apart. On the left the local form, on the right the Zurich one.
- gùggeluege
Where this one sits
Computed from the branch, the cantons and the reference town — no new claims about the dialect itself.
Sources
- Hotzenköcherle, Schläpfer, Trüb, Zinsli (eds.) 1997. Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz (SDS). Francke, Bern. Eight volumes, 1962–1997; over 1,500 maps from fieldwork carried out 1939–1958, covering the Alemannic dialects of Switzerland and the Walser dialects of northern Italy.
- Christen, Glaser & Friedli (eds.) 2010. Kleiner Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz. Huber, Frauenfeld. The condensed, general-readership edition of the SDS.
- Leemann, Steiner, Studerus, Oberholzer, Jeszenszky, Tomaschek & Kistler 2025. Dialäktatlas: 1950 bis heute. vdf, Zollikon. 1,000 speakers at 125 locations surveyed 2020–21, compared with the SDS.
- Hotzenköcherle, R. (ed. Bigler & Schläpfer) 1984. Die Sprachlandschaften der deutschen Schweiz. Sauerländer, Aarau.
- Schmutz, C. & Haas, W. 2000. Senslerdeutsches Wörterbuch. Paulusverlag, Freiburg.
- Wikipedia contributors 2026. Senslerdeutsch. German Wikipedia (secondary; «gùgge» for schauen).